SELF DISCOVERY & THE TRANSGENDER EXPERIENCE

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Kadie comes on the pod today to share her experience leaving the Mormon church and then discovering she is transgender. She tells about growing up in a religion with strict gender constructs, deciding to serve a mission despite some Reddit discoveries about Mormonism, getting married at BYU and then divorced, and how she ultimately realized she is transgender. While her experience as a transgender woman is unique, her journey of self discovery and embracing who she is will resonate with all of us campers.

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0:00.0	G-I-R-L-S-C-A-N-P-S-C-A-P
0:08.0	its Girls Camp.
0:12.3	Hello Campers and welcome to Girls Camp. I'm your host, Haley Raoul, and I've had a wonderful
0:20.1	week. I hope you've had a good week too. This week I went on my solo trip to New York and it was everything I dreamed it would be. I had a lot of high hopes for this trip and honestly it exceeded expectations.
0:35.2	New York in May is so lovely. There was such a good energy. The weather was insane.
0:41.9	It was perfect and the best part of it was getting to meet up with
0:47.2	friends that I've made through the podcast it was so fun to chat in real life and honestly I was telling my husband when I got home how
0:57.4	shook I am that real live humans are listening to this podcast and not only that but that the smartest
1:06.5	coolest humans are listening to the podcast I was like whoa I'm feeling almost intimidated by some of these listeners all just very cool people that I had such good conversations with and honestly one of the curses of doing this podcast is now anytime I'm having a
1:26.0	conversation with someone about the church which is quite often I feel panicked that I'm not recording it. I met up with a couple women through the
1:37.3	podcast and I was just like I wish I was recording everything we were saying
1:41.3	like how will I ever recap this on the
1:44.4	podcast, but I'm trying to just chill out a little bit, which is something I
1:49.0	always need to remind myself to do. That said, Bentley does want to get me like a little portable setup so I could do more like on the fly kind of interview stuff which I think would be really fun.
2:00.9	All of that to say, New York was great. I also saw Book of Mormon the musical
2:05.0	changed my life. I'm planning on doing a full recap episode in the next couple of
2:11.5	weeks so stay tuned for that.
2:14.0	One of the friends that I met up with in New York
2:17.0	is Katie Weber, and she is the guest on today's episode.
2:22.0	Katie is a transgender woman and I know Katie from my mission. So we actually were in the
2:28.0	MTC together and overlapped our entire missions and Katie transitioned in June of last year and she tells her whole
2:37.8	story of what it was like growing up in the church how she felt about all the gender constructs, how she went on a
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